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Memorial Day Activities

Minden Monday, May 27 5:30 a.m. - The Legion and VFW will be putting out large and small flags at the Minden Cemetery. The public is encouraged and invited to help put out the flags.  Meet at the north end of the cemetery. 11:30 a.m. - at the Minden Cemetery.  The WWII veterans not needing special...

Fire Causes $100,000 Damage Near Minden

The Minden Fire Department responded to a fire on May 13 at the Pallets & More business located on the grounds of Crossroads Welding. The fire department received a call and responded at 4:30 p.m. two miles east of Minden. It took firefighters from Minden with mutual aid from Axtell, Wilcox, Hildre...

Chamber City-Wide Garage Sales June 15

The Minden City-Wide Garage Sales will be held on Saturday, June 16. For a fee of $7, anyone holding a sale can register their garage sale with The Minden Courier, to be printed on the garage sale map. The complete map will be printed in the June 12 issue of the Courier. To be printed, your sale mu...

The Minden Optimist Club Celebrates 40 Years Of Service

The Minden Optimist Club celebrates forty years of service on May 22. The club, formed by 36 business, industry and professional men from Minden held its first meeting in 1973 at the Pioneers Restaurant. Since that day, The Minden Optimist Club has served thousands of children from Kearney County an...

Minden Board Accepts Two Resignations From Cavenee And Schwenka

The Minden Public School Board of Education held its May board meeting on May 13 in the C.L. Jones Media Center. The board approved the retirement with regret of two long-time teachers in the district. Middle school teachers Mary Jo Schwenka and Deb Cavenee both turned in their letters of resignatio...

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Holocaust Survivor: Williams Relives Her Story About The Holocaust

Holocaust Survivor: Williams Relives Her Story About The Holocaust

The area residents of Minden were treated to a very special guest on Thursday at Westminster Presbyterian Church.   Speaking was Kati (Kitty) Ehrenfeld Williams, a Holocaust survivor, which each...

MPS Board Approves Boyd Jones As CM@Risk

The Minden Public School Board of Education ventured out on a cold and icy night Wednesday, to hold its April meeting in the C.L. Jones Middle School media center.   The board’s first action of...

Whippet Good!

A Minden High School original production of Whippet Good! will take place on Thursday and Friday, April 25 and April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the Minden Opera House.   The production is a musical review...

Leadercast Coming To Minden May 10

Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending Chick-fil-A® Leadercast®  at Minden Opera House in Minden on May 10, 2013.   Be The Gift...

Pioneer Farm Award Deadline Is May 1

For the 59th year, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation and the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers, along with the Nebraska Farm Bureau, will recognize Nebraska Pioneer Farm Families whose land has...

Council Approves Lempka Addition To The City Of Minden

Kearney County Farmer Wins $5,000 For Kearney County 4-H Council And Fair Board Through Monsanto Project

Hildreth Trinity Lutheran To Hold Outreach Event

Holocaust Survivor Kati Williams To Speak On April 11 In Minden

KCHS Board Of Trustees Discuss Physician Recruitment Efforts

Minden’s Cornerstone Grill Has Taken Off

Board Approves Tax Exempt Status For Village

Supervisors Approve Bids For Bridge And Armor Coating

Council Has Busy Agenda For Meeting

Minden Is B-5 District Champs, Sending 10 To State

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Whippets Play In Class C-1 Districts

The Minden Whippet varsity golf team competed on May 13 in the Class C1-3 district meet held at Southern Hills Golf Course just outside Hastings. The Whippets did not have the outcome they expected in...

Woollen And Myers Qualify For State Meet

The Axtell Wildcats and Wilcox-Hildreth Falcons varsity golf teams competed on May 13 in the Class D-2 district golf meet held at Indianhead Golf Course in Grand Island. The Falcons and Cats were both...

NSAA Announces Winter NCPA Academic All-State Award Winners

The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) is proud to recognize the Nebraska High School students who have earned the 2012-13 Nebraska Chiropractic Physicians Association (NCPA) Winter Season Academic...

Holliday Runs At Nationals

The Doane College Tiger track and field teams posted strong outings at the 2013 Indoor Track and Field NAIA Championships with the women finishing fourth in the team standings and the men taking fifth. ...

Minden Falls To Pierce In Class C-1 First Round

The Minden Lady Whippets basketball team knew going into the 2013 Nebraska State Girls Basketball Tournament the draw they had would be a tough side of the bracket.   Minden was making its ninth...

Minden Gets C-1 Wildcard, Plays Pierce

Axtell Takes Hornets To Overtime In D2-4

Falcon Boys Fall To Overton In D1-9

Cats Upended By Bulldogs In D2-8

Dawgs Fall To Gibbon In C1-9 Subdistrict

2013 State Wrestling

Lady Cats Advance To District Final

Minden Girls Fall To Stars In C1-9

Dawgs, Cats And Falcons Qualify Seven For State Meet

Whippets Qualify 3 For State